Hinge.



UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIoE.

. THoMAs J. KEHoE, oF ToLEDo, oHIo.

able others skilled in the art to which it ap pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,

and to the characters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specication.

particularly to hinges of the concealed type for use in connection with automobile-doors or the like.

The object of my invention is the provision of a hinge of this character which is simple ,and inexpensive to manufacture, strong and durable in its construction, and capable of having the members thereof easily and quickly applied to ,a door and its casing and almost entirely concealed by the customary interior upholstering in an automobile body. v 1

A further object of the invention is the provision of simple and improved means for vrendering the members of a hinge'of this nature easily and .quickly separable to facilitate the hanging of automobile and other vthereof is illustrated inl the 40 doors and minimizing the work incidentv Fig. 4`is a similar cross-section with the door swung to open position.

Referring to the drawings, l designates the door frame or casing of an automobile body, and 2 a door mounted therein.

The femalemember of the hinge employed comprises, in the'present instance, a plate or bar 3, which is intended to be secured by HINGE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

This invention relates to door hinges and V and open into the thereof. The upper 4b ofthe socket portions 4 are provided with comprises av bar or .walls of the socket portions 4.` f

Patente-d oet. 19, 1915.

T Application led October 19, 1914. Serial N o. 867,500.

means ofscrews, or in any other suitable manner, to the inner side of the automobile body vadjacent to the door receiving ope ing therein. This member is provided, in the present instance, with a pair of vertically spaced socket portions 4, which are preferably formed bv transversely looping the bar or plate 3 so as to provide each socket with vertically spaced upper and lower walls 4a and 4b, respectively. The socket portions 4 of the female member lit into registering recesses provided in the wall of the door casing. If thel bar or plate 3 is set back or spaced from the edge of the casing, which formsthe door opening, the socket portions 4 are broadened relative to the bar 3, as shown at 5, to enable them to project to the edge of the casing` door receiving opening and lower walls4fL and axially registering pintle receiving openings 6. The .plate or bar 3 is intended to face the interior of the automobile body and has its sockets 4, 4 open both at the front and at the 'side thereof adjacent to the door receiving opening.`

The male member of thehinge preferably plate 7 adapted vto be secured by screws, or in any other .suitable manner, lto the inner side of the` door 2 adjacent to the rear edge thereof. The bar or plate 7 is provided with hinge arms; or projections 8 corresponding in number to and positioned to register with the respective socket portions 4 of the female member. Each' arm 8A is of L-formv with its free end portion extending outwardly relative to the door transverse the rear edge 'portion thereof and in spaced relation thereto, thus enabling the free angled end of the arm to project into the registering socket 4 of the female member. The arms 8 are provided at their upper and lower edges adjacent to l-their free ends withv ears 9, which,in the .present instance, project from the arm in.

opposition to the door 2 and have axially registering openings, which, when is in closed position, stand in axial register with the openings 6 in the upper and lower A pintle or pivot stud 10, which lis headed at one end, is inserted outwardly through the4 opening in each ear 9 and into the registering openings 6- in the socket member and coperates with the other pintles to hingedly connect the hinge members. The headed eol the door .Y pintles,

'-.Wlien it isdesired to ends of the pintles i limit their outward movement in the openings into which they* to, the-arm adjacent to its inner'end, as byA screw 1:2.. The bending of the spring ger 11 around the arm portion iin- S causes theifiee end have a `firm outward ofthe iingerto of both the spring thrust against the heads associated pintles 10, so as to prevent any rattling ,thereof and to retain` them in assembled or -member-connecting position,

members to remove Athe door Afrom *the body for any purp.ose, the.screws l2, whichv secure theispring lingers moved, thus permitting aremoval ofthe f springn Iingers' `from locking engagement 'with'tlre-pintles and a removal of the pintles.,v

versare hidden from view,

by reason of from {member-connecting position. When tlie'finterior of'an automobile body and its doors have been upholstered the hinge memdoorv vis opened, vandthen l only the outer endiportions vof the .hinge 7arms-8 and the outer ends of the socket portions 4 'are'eX- lWith the form of the arms of the rear wall of the socket `portions 4, as indicated'in Figd.

lt is found in practice bled or inemb'er-condisconnect the Y hinge l1 to the arms 8, are re,

except when the 'ot hinge described the, opening movements of. the` 'door are limited transversely lextending portions 8 coacting with. the outer edge that my improved Limbes hinge iscapab-leofibeing easily and quickly applied to a door and its casing, and that the members of the hinge can be easily and quickly separated or connected as the hang- .ing anditting of the door and casing may require. V-

. l wish it understood that my invention `is not limited to any .speciic construction, ar-

rangement or form ofthe parts except in so l far as such l'mitations'are specified in the claims. i

Havin'gthus described my inventiomwhat l claim asv-neW,- and desire to secure by lliet-y ters Patent, is,4- l. A hinge having inteienga'ging'male and 'female members, pintles pivotally connect# ing said .members in ,int'erengaging relation,

andmeans removably secured to and carried byone of saidmeinbers and coacting `with "said pintles to retain them in member-connecting position.

u 2. A hinge having interengaging male and Afemale members, pintles pivotally connectinglsaid membersin interengaging relation, and a spr-ing finger-removably secured to one of said members and'coacti'ng with said pintlesv to retain the same'in assembled-relation.

3. A hinge having intereiigaging .male

.and female m`embers,`the male member being of Lfform and having ears projecting from a part, thereof, pintles pivotally connecting said ears 'and' the female member, and ay 'spring finger .removably secured tothe male member andengaging said pintlesto secure them in assembled relation. I

ln testimonyv whereof l have hereunto signed ,my name to 4'this specification in the presence of two Vsubscribing witnesses.

THOMAS J. KEHE.

.'Vl/*itnessesz i j i i E. E. THOMAS, 

